They taught you to be everyone but yourself. An angel, vixen, girlfriend, wife, and mother. they told you to live as an adjunt the supportive trunk to everyone's dream while you buried yours roots to a great foundation. They told you to love everyone but yourself. To give and give until every ounce of you… Continue reading When You Remember
Category: Free verse
Waiting
I fell in love with you, not in the moments where we held each other, but in the absences I filled with longing. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy AN: Falling in love has been one of life's greatest mysteries for me. I don't know if I have the ability, faith, or strength to surrender control, live in the unknowing.… Continue reading Waiting
225/ 2017: Newspapers
I read a story today, and it reminded me of you. They found a new procedure, or so the article said, to operate on the inoperable. I laughed - Inoperable, I remember that word, it was the first time, I sought beauty in sharp edges. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy
129/2017: The Blessings of the Sister
When you arrive on this earth with a best friend waiting, you become fearless, not from the strength of your will but from the power of her love, belief and trust, that is the power of an elder sister, the pathfinder and wave-maker, the one who bore the pain first, opening paths and facing the… Continue reading 129/2017: The Blessings of the Sister
61/2017: (De)Construction
Time taught me the value of walls love taught me the value of a hammer. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy
57/2017: Lessons from my Mother (3): The Secret of Friendship
She told me, the only friends I would need, would be those who were blinded by the light they saw in my eyes, and whose light blinded me. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy
56/2017: Lessons from my Mother (2): Friendship
She taught me to seek, the ones who would hold my past in their heart, and wrap it with laughter, while promising me, with their eyes, that they would remember me in the future, even if I was not there to greet it with them. They in turn shared with me the pieces of her… Continue reading 56/2017: Lessons from my Mother (2): Friendship
53/2017: Stick the Landing
Darling, stop trying to catch yourself from falling, because love is all about the landing. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy
52/2017: Greedy
I don't want your days and nights, let the sun and the moon claim them, Instead, I only ask to be the very air in your lungs, living and dying in every moment you exhale. © Manivillie Kanagasabapathy AN: I haven't posted for two days, and it made me consider what I wanted to do… Continue reading 52/2017: Greedy
48/2017: Travel Wishes
For every step, you leave in the sand, I hope you carry the breath of the land, in the deepest part of your heart. For every hand, you embrace in warmth, I wish that you feel the vigorous and steady, beat of their heart across your palm. For every smile you give and receive, I… Continue reading 48/2017: Travel Wishes
